Privacy versus Protection – what is the Difference?
Knowing the difference between Privacy and Protection. Do you what it is?
As instructors, we all understand the difference between privacy and protection. However, with the unrest in today’s society, privacy is becoming a faint aberration and protection is becoming the only thing we care about.
For the last few weeks, I watched my husband pound away at his laptop discussing this aspect with others in the technology field. I made the mistake of sticking my nose into the conversation and got an education myself. Marty and I have conversations all the time about technology, education and the integration between the two, but when I mentioned to him that I thought the privacy and protection were intertwined – which they are, he took it in stride and really gave me a lesson.
As he always does when we have these types of deep discussions, he started by simplifying things and asked me one question…
“What do you think of when you hear the word PRIVACY?”
I rattled off a number of things, thinking the conversation was focused only on technology.
anti-virus
web cameras
passwords
and a few others
Marty asked me to broaden the scope. “Don’t just think about technology, focus on the word privacy.”
I thought about it for a minute and threw out the only thing I could think of off the top of my head… “Privacy Fence”. This family feud game was a losing effort on my part as none of my answers hit the board. I learned that I was talking more about protection than privacy. Marty explained that we use protection concepts and tactics to maintain privacy, but privacy is something completely different. The more we discussed it the more I understood. Not just about the difference, but about the fact that privacy is diminishing.
What do you think? I decided to take Marty’s research poll and share it with you. This one question anonymous cybersecurity poll asks the question he asked me. Please take a moment to participate and comment below and feel free to go to the short poll: https://goo.gl/7E27Xu
